Fire Destro PVPFollow

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormrage&n=Philomel

As you can see I'm welfare epic and running a Drakedog build. I get a lot of lols when people look at my build while we're waiting for the gates to open in BGs... and a lot of "gd that was fast" or "whoa dude" from people who watch me kill. Just because there's a lot of terribad Drakedog wannabes out there doesn't mean the build doesn't work. Undispellable damage, massive control with the succubus, fear/shadowfury not being locked from kick/etc., speed of damage applied with fire nukes, the list of advantages with fire goes on. Aftermath is an incredible talent and I've had many rogues simply stop trying to chase me and let me kill them because there's nothing they can do to me, although still not as often as they kill me =(. Between my seduce-nuke combos or VW torment/sac, shadowfury-nuke combos, and backlash, the warrior who kills me is fairly rare and almost always outgears me. BM hunters and feral druids are still a problem but with my burst damage it's a 50/50 depending on crits and backlash procs, instawin on the druid if DC is up. Horde in my battlegroup are 90% full s1/vindicators or better, most better, and I routinely demolish multiple opponents by myself. My biggest problem is idiots on my team breaking my seduces on melee and getting me killed, and the incredible rate at which I go through soul shards, because I cast Soul Fire every time it pops and spam shadowburn is the win. Now, real pvp isn't a Drakedog video and everybody you fight isn't going to be high or retarded, but a deep fire destro build, while requiring a great deal more finesse than affliction or demo, is incredibly devestating. I can't keep going like an afflic lock in large scale battles, but that's rarely a factor when I can put so much damage on a healer that it's all they can do to try to keep themselves up, if they can even manage that. Destro builds aren't just for zero resilience targets, and shadow destro is for raids, fire destro is the pvp destro. I lol at warlocks who use shadowbolt in pvp.

Any other locks out there run deep fire destro and pwn it up? Can I get a witness? Some locks dot people up, then get the satisfaction of watching them die before they release to the graveyard. I'm not that kind of warlock. =)

Edit: Yes, I still routinely top damage as fire destro, and tend to have significantly more HKs and KBs than as an afflic or demo build, along with dying less. Tab-dotting groups will definitely rack up a higher damage score, but putting insignificant damage on five people - well, I prefer to kill two of them in the same amount of time it takes to instadot all five.

Edited, Apr 12th 2008 5:25pm by Philomel

Unfortunately I'm alliance, so all our priests are shadow and all our pallies are ret. All our shammies are elemental and all our druids are balance. I can't drop any names but we do have a few good healers, mostly we have bad "dps." In all my BGs I've seen like one good alli ret pally and three or four good alli feral druids. Never seen an alli spriest do anything significant in a battleground at 70, never seen an alli shaman do much of anything in a BG, although there was one resto shammy running with me in an EotS the other day where we came back from a ~1000 pt 9v15 to win by like 24 pts or something. We took both horde nodes from 6+ people each with just the two of us because I was catching the madd heals so I could tap and keep nuking, and the shammy had skills and was kiting the few people coming after him. I'm so used to BGing without heals that it literally shocks me when I get them.

Edit: Alli ret pallies in S3 say, "I suck at pvp but I do arenas as holy to get the s3 ret gear because there's no good ret gear from pve."

2nd Edit: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Warsong&n=Devastatia is by far the baddest ret pally I've ever ran across in a BG and about 80% of the time she can stomp me 1v1 if she has all her CDs up, props, not many pallies can even hit me without being bubbled.



Edited, Apr 13th 2008 1:57pm by Philomel